Improved safety socket for whips



W. D. PUTNAM.

lWhip'A Socket.

Patented May 24,l 1870.

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WINTI-IROP DAVIS PUTNAM, OIT-CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.A

Letters Patent No. 103,368, dated May 24, 1870.

Y IMIEROVED SAFETY SOCKET FOR WHIPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WINTHROP Davis PUTNAM, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and'State of Illinois, have invented a Safety Socket for Whips; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specication, inwhich- Figure l is a view of the front of the improved socket.

Figure 2 is a view of the back of the socket, with the back plate removed and the two whip-clamps in section.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken in the vertical plane indicated by line :c x, iig. 4.

Figure 4 is a transverse section taken in a vertical plane indicated by dotted line y y in iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several gures.

This invention relates to an improvement of whipsockets for vehicles, and consists in providing the socket with clamps for receiving and griping the whip when in the soeketin combination with some suitable means for locking the clamps, so that a person unacquainted with the lock cannot remove the whip from the socket, as will be hereinafter explained. v

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings- A A1 represent two sect-ions, forming the main por-- tion of the whipisocket, which sections are respectively secured to the top and bottonrof a box, A2, so that their vertical axes coincide.

The bottom of the lower tubular section A is closed, and the top and bottom of the upper shorter section 1s open.

The box A2 is preferably made of the elliptical form shown in t-he drawings, with a face-plate, B, on one of its at sides, from which project two thumb-nuts, G l).

Interiorly, the box is divided into two apartments by a vertical partition, N, and below the front apartment is a chamber, inclosed by a box, G.

Within the rear apartment two scroll-shaped oseillating clamps, E E, are applied on horizontal shafts g g', which clamps are arranged on opposite sides of the axial plane of the socket-tube A A1, and constructed with tapering concave surfaces, which may be serrated, so as to gripe and hold firmly a whp,\V, placed in the socket, as shown in g. 2.

On the shafts g y spur-wheels F F, of equal chaineter, are keyed, one of which wheels has the space between two of its teeth filled, as shown at iigl, so as to prevent a spring, T, on the shaft g from turning the wheels F F and theelamps E E entirely around, which it would do were it not for the obstruction f.

The'wheels F F cause the two clamps to approach and recede frome one another equally, and to clamp or release the whip XV, as the case may be, at the same time. l

Within the apartment of the box, A2 shaft g has a spur-wheel, It, keyed on it, which engages with a pinion, s, on the stem c ofthe thumb-nut C. Thus, by turning the nutV C toward the right hand, the wheels F F will be moved in the direction indicated by the arrows in iig. 2, and the clamps E E will approach the whip W', and confine it.

On the stem or shaft g a helical spring T is applied, oue end of which is secured to said shaft, and the'other end is secured to a fixed stud, m, on the plate N. it will be wound up in the act of applying the clamps to a whip,and thereby operate by its recoil to separate the clamps.

On the stem -c of thumb-nut C, a ratchet-wheel,l, f

is keyed, which is engaged by the nose of averticallysliding spring pawl, O, as -shown in iig. 3, and'when the parts are thus engaged, the clamps griping the whip, the latter cannot be removed from its socket until the pawl O is depressed, and the wheel P thus'released.v

'Within the box G the releasing mechanism is applied. This consists of the ,pawl O, in whiJh is a spring,

S, that acts upon the bottom of said box, and forces the pawl upward against the teeth of ratchet'l, when this pawl is unrestrained'.

The stem t of the thumb-nut Dbas a disk, r, applied on it within box' G, which disk has a notch, c, in its periphery. By turning the nut D so as to bring the-notch o in line with a fixed boss, t, on the faceplate B, and pressing down the nut D and said disk, the pawl O will release the ratchet P, when spring T will cause t-he clamps E E to separate and release the p Whip.

The pawl 0 works in guides n n, fastened to the back of face-plate B, and it is slotted, to receive the boss or sto'p i, and the hole through the face-plate B, through which stem t passes, is oblong vertically, to allow this stem to be depressed, when the notch fv, in

disk r, is made to register wit-h the boss 1'-, as shownwith respect to the notch 'v and-boss t' for the figure S'V on the circle vof figures, so that, with the pointer ad- This spring is coiled fin such manner that justed to anyV other figure, the pawl cannot bede pressed, asthecircinnfere'nce,of diskrwill abut against the boss i.

To render the device permutable, that portion of the rotary stern t, which receives the pointer d, may be made prismatic.

Operation;

When the clamps E E are separated to their fullest extent a whip may be inserted into or removed' from the socket, as with th' ordinary whip-socket. lo fasten thc whip in place in the socket, the thumb-nut is turned from left to right, which will cause the clamps E E to gripe the whip, and hold it firmly. The ratchet 0 will allow the pawl P to turn freely in the act of clamping the whip, but will not allow the spring T to separate the clamps. After clamping the whip, the pointer l should be turned to any number in the circle e, so that it be not the number which will bring the notch fr opposite the boss i.

To release the whip thus clamped, -the pointer is turned tothe gure 8, and the thumb-nut D depressed. This will 'cause pawl O to release ratchet-wheel P, when spring T, which was wound up-in applying the .clamps to the whip, will cause the' clamps E E to recede from the whip.

. Having described my invention,

ters Patent, is-

1.. A clamping device, in combination with the interior of a whip-socket or holder, operating upon the principle set forth.

2. A secret locking device, a clamping device, and a. whip-socket or holder, constructed and operating upon the principle set forth.

WVINTHROP DAVIS PUTNAM.

Witnesses:

A. D. SHARP, FRANK S. WRIGHT.

What I claim as new7 aud desire to secure by Let- 

